wat is y2k?

Question

i heard it in a white castle ad.....lol

Answer 1

something the government used to strike fear into our hearts before 9/11.

Answer 2

Y2K was how everyone referred to Year 2000, in 1999. Somewhere along the way, some computer nerd got the idea that computers were not set up to turn their clocks over from 99 to 00.. or something like that.

The great fear was that since almost everything in our modern lives is in some way run by a computer of some sort, then when the new millennium began, computers everywhere would crash, causing everything from hospitals to cash registers to crash.

It was going to be difficult to buy food, since everything would be catawonky.

On Dec. 31, 1999, folks were stocking up on bottled water just in case, and a few people even invested in food Hydra-something or other to freeze dry food for when the "big famine" hit.

Me? I was poor, so I was relying on my fat reserves to get me through. Ok, I confess, I bought and extra couple bottles of water.

Jan.1, 2000 came. There was no Y2K catastrophe and my wise fat reserves just translated into plain old fat. :-)

Here's the REAL reason why the Y2K disaster didn't come to pass:http://www.sock-monkey.com/y2k.html

Answer 3

You mean what WAS y2k, Y=Year 2=2 k-1,000

Year 2000

Answer 4

There was a lot of concern, world-wide, that every computer in the world would no longer be able to run past the end of 1999, because of the way that their internal calendars had been designed to run.

Those fears never came to pass, but people were envisioning a worst-case scenario that included the very collapse of society--with jets falling out of the skies when their onboard computers crashed, etc.

You asked, "What is Y2K?" "Y" stands for "year," and "2K" stands for "2000." "Year 2000: The last year of civilization (if our worst fears come to pass!)."

Answer 5

Year 2000

Answer 6

Y2K means Year 2000. The y means year and the k is an abbreviation meaning thousand.

Answer 7

Y2K is shorthand for the year 2000.

Answer 8

The biggest American joke of the last century. My English friends tell me: I never heard of Y2K before you told me (six years later)!!!!

Answer 9

y2k the fastest bike in the world

Answer 10

Y2K bug was a clicking time bomb for all major computer applications

more info here:
http://www.y2ktimebomb.com/
http://homepages.wmich.edu/~rea/Y2K/FAQ.html